稀释气对天然气掺甲醇裂解气预混层流燃烧特性的影响

运用了定容燃烧弹-纹影系统球形发展火焰的研究方法,用体积比H2:CO=2:1的混合气来模拟甲醇裂解气,用N_2和CO_2作为稀释气,在初始温度为343 K、初始压力为0.3 MPa的条件下进行了稀释气-天然气-甲醇裂解气-空气预混燃烧试验,研究了不同当量比(0.8～1.4)下不同稀释气种类(N2和C02)及不同稀释气添加比例(0.05、0.1、0.15)对天然气-甲醇裂解气-空气(其中甲醇裂解气体积占比0.4、天然气体积占比0.6)层流燃烧速度、马克斯坦长度及胞状结构等燃烧特性的影响.并且在不添加稀释气的条件下,进行了同样初始温度和压力下的天然气(1/0.6/0.2)-甲醇裂解气(0/0.4/0.8)-空气预混层流燃烧的对比试验.结果表明:掺甲酵裂解气会增加混合气层流燃烧速率,促进胞状结构的产生;添加稀释气会降低层流燃烧速率;CO_2对流体动力学不稳定性的抑制作用以及对热扩散不稳定性的促进作用强于N2.在此条件下,热扩散不稳定性是影响火焰不稳定性的主要因素.     

1-庚烯/空气的高压层流火焰传播研究

本文使用定容圆柱形燃烧弹,在初始温度373 K和初始压力1、2、5、10 atm的条件下,对当量比从0.7到1.5的1-庚烯/空气混合物的层流火焰传播进行了研究.利用记录的纹影图像处理得到层流火焰传播速度和马克斯坦长度.基于先前报道的1-己烯燃烧反应动力学模型,发展了1-庚烯的模型.该模型验证了本工作测量的1-庚烯层流火焰传播速度数据及文献中的1-庚烯着火延迟时间数据.通过开展敏感性分析和路径分析,帮助理解了1-庚烯在不同压力下的高温化学及其对层流火焰传播的影响.另外,比较了1-庚烯/空气和先前报道的正庚烷/空气的层流火焰传播.由于更强的放热性及反应活性,1-庚烯/空气的层流火焰传播速度在绝大多数条件下均快于正庚烷/空气的结果.     

湍流预混火焰点火与传播特性研究

可燃预混气的点火与传播过程是发动机燃烧领域最重要的课题之一,尤其是湍流与化学反应的相互作用对预混气点火和火焰传播的影响机理有待进一步研究。本文利用定压球形火焰研究了氢气/氧气/氩气(Le1)在可燃极限条件(当量比0.3)下湍流对点火与火焰传播过程的影响,研究表明,在该工况下,湍流有助于可燃气点火过程,火焰传播过程中,由于湍流的影响,局部拉伸率大于0的区域火焰传播增快,局部拉伸率小于0的区域火焰传播受到抑制,甚至出现局部熄火。     

1-庚烯/空气的高压层流火焰传播研究（英文）

本文使用定容圆柱形燃烧弹,在初始温度373 K和初始压力1、2、5、10 atm的条件下,对当量比从0.7到1.5的1-庚烯/空气混合物的层流火焰传播进行了研究.利用记录的纹影图像处理得到层流火焰传播速度和马克斯坦长度.基于先前报道的1-己烯燃烧反应动力学模型,发展了1-庚烯的模型.该模型验证了本工作测量的1-庚烯层流火焰传播速度数据及文献中的1-庚烯着火延迟时间数据.通过开展敏感性分析和路径分析,帮助理解了1-庚烯在不同压力下的高温化学及其对层流火焰传播的影响.另外,比较了1-庚烯/空气和先前报道的正庚烷/空气的层流火焰传播.由于更强的放热性及反应活性,1-庚烯/空气的层流火焰传播速度在绝大多数条件下均快于正庚烷/空气的结果.     

甲烷-煤尘爆炸物火焰传播特性

 在10 m³的爆炸罐中对体积分数为8%的甲烷和75 g/m³煤尘的混合物进行了系统的燃烧爆炸实验。分别利用光测方法和压力方法得到了爆炸物的层流燃烧速度、火焰传播速度、火焰厚度、马克斯坦长度以及爆炸特征值的变化规律。结果表明,在常温常压下,当点火能为40 J时：利用光测法得到的8%甲烷与75 g/m³煤尘混合物的燃烧速度为0.437 m/s,而根据压力-时间关系得到的混合物燃烧速度为0.459 m/s,两者符合较好;用火焰厚度与马克斯坦长度判定的火焰发展趋势相同,即向外传播的火焰趋于稳定;爆炸物的爆炸特征值最大值出现在0.5 m处,壁面的爆炸特征值偏小。     

受限湍流射流扩散火焰的PDF模拟

采用k-ε双方程模型和概率密度函数(PDF)相结合的办法,研究受限条件下的湍流射流扩散火焰,着重考虑受限条件下固体壁面、压力梯度等因素对速度场和标量场求解的影响,并在此基础上对两个不同尺寸的受限湍流燃烧场进行计算,分别研究了受限湍流射流扩散火焰的流场结构、火焰结构和火焰形状.最后给出结果,定性分析,并得出结论.     

乙烷含量对天然气、煤层气燃烧速率和火焰稳定性的影响

本文在定容燃烧弹中,研究了高温高压(0.75 MPa,450 K)下甲烷-乙烷-空气预混合气火焰传播规律,并系统分析了当量比、混合气中乙烷含量对混合气层流燃烧及火焰稳定性的影响.实验结果表明:随着混合气中乙烷含量的增加,不同当量比下无拉伸火焰燃烧速率均增大,马克斯坦长度增大,表明火焰稳定性增强.在实验范围内,无拉伸火焰...     

一种低湍流扬尘方法的实验研究

对一种新型扬尘方法在垂直管道中形成的扬尘湍流特性进行了测量,在此基础上,观察和测量了玉米粉尘火焰向上传播的过程,讨论了湍流对火焰特性的影响。新方法产生的扬尘湍流强度相当低,随时间衰减缓慢,扬尘湍流的积分尺度随着时间增大,约为2 cm到3 cm。实验中观察到两种粉尘火焰:湍流火焰和层流火焰,火焰形态转变对应的点火延迟时间约等于1．1 s,即粉尘云湍流运动强度为10 cm／s,湍流火焰传播速度明显大于层流火焰。     

微型摆式发动机内丙烷/空气单次燃烧实验研究

在厘米尺度百瓦级微型摆动式发动机样机上进行了单次燃烧实验,燃用当量比φ=0.9~1.2的丙烷/空气预混合气时,对燃烧室内的火焰传播形态、气体动态压力和摆臂运动进行测量,获得了平均火焰传播速度、燃烧持续时间、燃料质量燃尽率、压力和摆臂止点角度随当量比变化的规律特性。结果表明:在进气初始温度300 K、压力0.13 MPa条件下,φ=1.0~1.2工况时,微摆发动机内燃烧为湍流燃烧,燃烧持续时间在5 ms以内,压力峰值高于8个大气压;随当量比增加,燃烧持续时间缩短、平均火焰传播速度加快和压力峰值升高,更接近定容燃烧,有利于提高输出功率。     

较高当量比氢气空气预混合气的燃烧特性研究

利用纹影法,在定容燃烧弹中研究了较高当量比和不同初始压力下氢气空气预混合气的燃烧特性,分析了两参数对其燃烧特性的影响。试验结果表明,本实验条件下的氢气空气预混合物燃烧过程中,主火焰两侧出现挤流火焰,且挤流火焰的传播明显快于主火焰;根据出现挤流火焰与否、两侧挤流火焰相遇与否、实验时的热力参数、燃料浓度等条件,燃烧过程可分为四个阶段;在本文的实验条件下随着当量比增加,挤流火焰燃烧速度加快,其倾向于自燃时的多点燃烧;随着初始压力降低,挤流火焰逐渐出现在主火焰层流燃烧阶段。     

Turbulent flame propagation limits of ammonia/methane/air premixed mixture in a constant volume vessel

Ammonia is one of promising energy carriers that can be directly used as carbon-neutral fuel for combustion applications. However, because of the low-burning velocity of ammonia, it is challenging to introduce ammonia to practical combustors those are designed for general hydrocarbon fuels. One of ways to enhance the combustibility of ammonia is by mixing it with other hydrocarbon fuels, such as methane, with a burning velocity is much higher than the burning velocity of ammonia. In this study, we conducted flame propagation experiments of ammonia/methane/air using a fan-stirred constant volume vessel to clarify the effect of methane addition to ammonia on the turbulent flame propagation limit. From experimental results, we constructed the flame propagation maps and clarified the flame propagation limits. The results show that the flame propagation limits were extended with an increase in mixing a fraction of methane to ammonia. Additionally, ammonia/methane/air mixtures with the equivalence ration of 0.9 can propagate at the highest turbulent intensity, even though the peak of the laminar burning velocity is the fuel-rich side because of the diffusional-thermal instability of the flame surface. Furthermore, the Markstein number of the mixture obtained in this research successfully expressed the strength of the diffusional-thermal instability effect on the flame propagation capability. The turbulence Karlovitz number at the flame propagation limit monotonically increases with the decreasing Markstein number.     

Turbulent propagation of premixed flames in the presence of Darrieus–Landau instability

We investigate the role played by hydrodynamic instability in the wrinkled flamelet regime of turbulent combustion, where the intensity of turbulence is small compared to the laminar flame speed and the scale large compared to the flame thickness. To this end the Michelson–Sivashinsky (MS) equation for flame front propagation in one and two spatial dimensions is studied in the presence of uncorrelated and correlated noise representing a turbulent flow field. The combined effect of turbulence intensity, integral scale, and an instability parameter related to the Markstein length are examined and turbulent propagation speed monitored for both stable planar flames and corrugated flames for which the planar conformation is unstable. For planar flames a particularly simple scaling law emerges, involving quadratic dependence on intensity and a linear dependence on the degree of instability. For corrugated flames we find the dependence on intensity to be substantially weaker than quadratic, revealing that corrugated flames are more resilient to turbulence than planar flames. The existence of a threshold turbulence intensity is also observed, below which the corrugated flame in the presence of turbulence behaves like a laminar flame. We also analyze the conformation of the flame surface in the presence of turbulence, revealing primary, large-scale wrinkles of a size comparable to the main corrugation. When the integral scale is much smaller than the characteristic corrugation length we observe, in addition to primary wrinkles, secondary small-scale wrinkles contaminating the surface. The flame then acquires a multi-scale, self-similar conformation, with a fractal dimension, for one-dimensional flames, plateauing at 1.23 for large intensities. The existence of an intermediate integral scale is also found at which the turbulent speed is maximized. When two-dimensional flames are subject to turbulence, the primary wrinkling patterns give rise to polyhedral-cellular structures which bear a very close resemblance to those observed in experiments on hydrodynamically unstable expanding spherical flames.     

Propagation of Darrieus–Landau unstable laminar and turbulent expanding flames

The propagation of laminar and turbulent expanding flames subjected to Darrieus–Landau (DL), hydrodynamic instability was experimentally studied by employing stoichiometric H₂/O₂/N₂ flames under quiescent and turbulent conditions performed in a newly developed medium-scale, fan-stirred combustion chamber. In quiescent environment, DL unstable laminar flame exhibits three-stage propagation, i.e. smooth expansion, transition acceleration, and self-similar acceleration. The self-similar acceleration is characterized by a power-law growth of acceleration exponent, α, with normalized Peclet number, which is different from the usually suggested self-similar propagation with a constant α. The imposed turbulence advances the onset of both transition acceleration and self-similar acceleration stages and promotes the strength of flame acceleration as additional wrinkles are invoked by turbulence eddies. A DL–turbulent interaction regime is confirmed to be the classical corrugated flamelets regime. Furthermore, the DL instability significantly facilitates the propagation of expanding flames in medium and even intense turbulence. The development of DL cells is not suppressed by turbulence eddies, and it needs to be considered in turbulent combustion.     

Velocity of weakly turbulent flames of finite thickness

The velocity increase of a weakly turbulent flame of finite thickness is investigated using analytical theory developed in previous papers. The obtained velocity increase depends on the flow parameters: on the turbulent intensity, on the turbulent spectrum and on the characteristic length scale. It also depends on the thermal and chemical properties of the burning matter: thermal expansion, the Markstein number and the temperature dependence of transport coefficients. It is shown that the influence of the finite flame thickness is especially strong close to the resonance point, when the wavelength of the turbulent harmonic is equal to the cut off wavelength of the Darrieus–Landau instability. The velocity increase is almost independent of the Prandtl number. On the contrary, the Markstein number is one of the most important parameters controlling the velocity increase. The relative role of the external turbulence and the Darrieus–Landau instability for the velocity increase is studied for different parameters of the flow and the burning matter. The velocity increase for turbulent flames in methane and propane fuel mixtures is calculated for different values of the equivalence ratio. The present theoretical results are compared with previous experiments on turbulent flames. In order to perform the comparison, the theoretical results of the present paper are extrapolated to the case of a strongly corrugated flame front using the ideas of self-similar flame dynamics. The obtained theoretical results are in a reasonable agreement with the experimental data, taking into account the uncertainties of both the theory and the experiments. It is shown that in many experiments on turbulent flames the Darrieus–Landau instability is more important for the flame velocity than the external turbulence.     

Turbulent flame speed and morphology of pure ammonia flames and blends with methane or hydrogen

Ammonia appears a promising hydrogen-energy carrier as well as a carbon-free fuel. However, there remain limited studies for ammonia combustion especially under turbulent conditions. To that end, using the spherically expanding flame configuration, the turbulent flame speeds of stoichiometric ammonia/air, ammonia/methane and ammonia/hydrogen were examined. The composition of blends studied are currently being investigated for gas turbine application and are evaluated at various turbulent intensities, covering different kinds of turbulent combustion regimes. Mie-scattering tomography was employed facilitating flame structure analysis. Results show that the flame propagation speed of ammonia/air increases exponentially with increasing hydrogen amount. It is less pronounced with increasing methane addition, analogous to the behavior displayed in the laminar regime. The turbulent to laminar flame speed ratio increases with turbulence intensity. However, smallest gains were observed at highest hydrogen content, presumably due to differences in the combustion regime, with the mixture located within the corrugated flamelet zone, with all other mixtures positioned within the thin reaction zone. A good correlation of the turbulent velocity based on the Karlovitz and Damköhler numbers is observable with the present dataset, as well as previous experimental measurements available in literature, suggesting that ammonia-based fuels may potentially be described following the usual turbulent combustion models. Flame morphology and stretch sensitivity analysis were conducted, revealing that flame curvature remains relatively similar for pure ammonia and ammonia-based mixtures. The wrinkling ratio is found to increase with both increasing ammonia fraction and turbulent intensity, in good agreement with measured increases in turbulent flame speed. On the other hand, in most cases, the flame stretch effect does not change significantly with increasing turbulence, whilst following a similar trend to that of the laminar Markstein length.     

Flame speed and self-similar propagation of expanding turbulent premixed flames

In this Letter we present turbulent flame speeds and their scaling from experimental measurements on constant-pressure, unity Lewis number expanding turbulent flames, propagating in nearly homogeneous isotropic turbulence in a dual-chamber, fan-stirred vessel. It is found that the normalized turbulent flame speed as a function of the average radius scales as a turbulent Reynolds number to the one-half power, where the average radius is the length scale and the thermal diffusivity is the transport property, thus showing self-similar propagation. Utilizing this dependence it is found that the turbulent flame speeds from the present expanding flames and those from the Bunsen geometry in the literature can be unified by a turbulent Reynolds number based on flame length scales using recent theoretical results obtained by spectral closure of the transformed G equation.     

Spherical turbulent flame propagation of pulverized coal particle clouds in an O2/N2 atmosphere

The present study aims to clarify the effects of turbulence intensity and coal concentration on the spherical turbulent flame propagation of a pulverized coal particle cloud. A unique experimental apparatus was developed in which coal particles can be dispersed homogeneously in a turbulent flow field generated by two fans. Experiments on spherical turbulent flame propagation of pulverized coal particle clouds in a constant volume spherical chamber in various turbulence intensities and coal concentrations were conducted. A common bituminous coal was used in the present study. The flame propagation velocity was obtained from an analysis of flame propagation images taken using a high-speed camera. It was found that the flame propagation velocity increased with increasing flame radius. The flame propagation velocity increases as the turbulence intensity increases. Similar trends were observed in spherical flames using gaseous fuel. The coal concentration has a weak effect on the flame propagation velocity, which is unique to pulverized coal combustions in a turbulent field. These are the first reports of experimental results for the spherical turbulent flame propagation behavior of pulverized coal particle clouds. The results obtained in the present study are obviously different from those of previous pulverized coal combustion studies and any other results of gaseous fuel combustion research.     

Effect of fuel ratio of coal on the turbulent flame speed of ammonia/coal particle cloud co-combustion at atmospheric pressure

This study aims to clarify the effect of fuel ratio of coal on the turbulent flame speed of ammonia/coal particle cloud co-combustion at atmospheric pressure under various turbulence intensities. High-fuel-ratio coals are not usually used in coal-fired thermal power plants because of their low flame stability. The expectation is that ammonia as a hydrogen-energy carrier would improve the ignition capability of coal particles in co-combustion. Experiments on spherical turbulent flame propagation of co-combustion were conducted for various coal types under various turbulence intensities, using the unique experimental apparatus developed for the co-combustion. Experimental results show that the flame speed of co-combustion with a low equivalence ratio of ammonia/oxidizer mixture for bituminous coal case was found to be three times faster than that of pure coal combustion and two times faster than that of pure ammonia combustion. On the other hand, the flame speed of co-combustion for the highest-fuel-ratio coal case is lower than that of the pure ammonia combustion case, although the flame propagation can be sustained due to the ammonia mixing. To explain the difference of tendencies depending on the fuel ratio of coal, a flame propagation mechanism of ammonia/coal particle cloud co-combustion was proposed. Two positive effects are the increases of local equivalence ratio and the increases of radiation heat flux, which increases the flame speed. In opposite, a negative effect is the heat sink effect that decreases the flame speed. The two positive effects on the flame speed of co-combustion overwhelm a negative effect for bituminous coal case, while the negative effect overcomes both positive effects for the highest-fuel-ratio coal case. The findings of the study can contribute to the reduction of solid fuel costs when the ammonia is introduced as CO₂ free energy carrier and can improve the energy security through the utilization of high-fuel-ratio coals.     

Measurement of unstable burning velocities of iso-octane–air mixtures at high pressure and the derivation of laminar burning velocities

A new technique is reported for measuring burning velocities at high pressures in the final stages of two inwardly propagating flame kernels in an explosion bomb. The flames were initiated at diametrically opposite spark electrodes, close to the wall, in quiescent mixtures. Measurements of pressure and flame kernel propagation speeds by high-speed photography showed the burning velocities to be elevated above the corresponding laminar burning velocities as a result of the developing flame instabilities. The enhancement increased with increase in pressure and decreased with increase in Markstein number. When the Markstein number was negative, instabilities could be appreciable, as could the enhancement. For the iso-octane–air mixtures investigated, where the mixtures had well-characterised Markstein numbers or critical Peclet numbers at the relevant pressures and temperatures, it was possible to explain the enhancement quantitatively by the spherical explosion flame instability theory of Bechtold and Matalon, provided the critical Peclet number was that observed experimentally, and allowance was made for the changing pressure. With this theoretical procedure, it was possible to derive values of laminar burning velocity from the measured values of burning velocity over a wide range of equivalence ratios, pressures, and temperatures. The values became less reliable at the higher temperatures and pressures as the data on Markstein and critical Peclet numbers became less certain. It was found that with iso-octane as the fuel the laminar burning velocity decreased during isentropic compression.